4. Roaming
Understanding Roaming
Recognizing Icons on the Display Screen
Your phone’s display screen always lets you know when you’re off the home network and whether your phone is operating in analog or digital mode. The following chart indicates what you’ll see depending on where you’re using your phone.
Network | Indicator |
Digital Home
Analog Home
Digital Roaming
Digital Roam
Analog Roaming
Analog Roam
Roaming on Digital Networks
When you’re roaming on digital networks, your call quality and security will be similar to the quality you receive when making calls on the home network. You may not be able to access certain features, such as Web.
Roaming on Analog Networks
When you roam on analog networks, you will experience a similar quality provided by other analog carriers today. Although some features, such as Web, will be unavailable, you can still make and receive calls. You will experience a few differences:
You are more likely to experience
Some features which are standard on the home network are unavailable.
There are security and privacy risks (eavesdropping and cloning) that exist with conventional analog services today.
Your battery needs recharging sooner when you use your phone for analog roaming.
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